by Frances Phillips | Jul 7, 2010 | 2010, Performing Arts
Philip Kan Gotanda collaborating with faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, to develop a new play, I Dream of Chang and Eng, based on the lives of the original Siamese twins. Gotanda’s piece animates the lives of these pioneer figures while engaging...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 7, 2010 | 2010, Performing Arts
Composer and musician Paul Dresher collaborating with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, led by music director Joana Carneiro, on a new 18- to 24-minute work, “Concerto for Two Invented Instruments and Orchestra,” featuring two of Dresher’s unique...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 7, 2010 | 2010, Performing Arts
Choreographer and dancer Sean Dorsey collaborating with Queer Cultural Center to create Notes from the Gender Underground, an interdisciplinary dance theater concert created by Dorsey with an ensemble of four LGBT dancers, three composer/musicians, and a sound...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 7, 2010 | 2010, Performing Arts
Choreographer Jess Curtis collaborating with performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) to create a performance-installation, Dances for Non/Fictional Bodies. Physically and conceptually, the work deconstructed...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 7, 2010 | 2010, Visual Arts
Artist Victor Cartagena collaborating with Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana to create “A Body Parted, Shrapnel of Present Time/Un Cuerpo Partido: Esquirlas de Tiempo Presente,” an interdisciplinary work incorporating a performance,...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 7, 2010 | 2010, Visual Arts
Claudia Stevens collaborating with the University of California at Santa Cruz Arboretum to create traditional botanical painting to illustrate biotic and cultural knowledge that has been lost through the centuries in California. The project highlights how native...
